This feature saves staff time and increases accuracy when entering patron address information by
automatically filling in the City, State and County information based on the
ZIP code entered by the staff member.

Released: Evergreen 0.1, available in all versions.

Please be aware of the following when using this feature.

ZIP codes do not always match 1 to 1 with City, State and County. ZIP codes were designed for postal delivery and represent postal delivery zones that may cover more than one city, state or county.

It is currently only possible to have one match per ZIP code, but you can add an alert to those entries to prompt staff to double check the entered data.

Only the first 5 digits of the ZIP are used. ZIP+4 is not currently supported.

The zips.txt data is loaded once at service startup and stored in memory, so changes to the zips.txt data file require that Evergreen be restarted. Specifically, you need to restart the "open-ils.search" OpenSRF service.

Scoping and Permissions

There are no staff client permissions associated with this feature since there is no staff client interface.

This feature affects all users of the system; there is no way to have separate settings per Org Unit.